sound designer and field recordist

Andy Martin, sound designer and field recordist

CREATIVITY: DESIGNED SERENDIPITY

Statement:
Sound is an integral factor in creating an emotional connection in storytelling, yet its invisibility often leaves it overlooked and left to fill the role of “don’t be bad enough to be noticed”. Gaming potential has moved into a realm of emotional engagement and creative expression previously occupied only by movies. They have the potential to grow far beyond, but only if we learn to flex all of our creative storytelling and engagement muscles.

Also, recording and making sounds is a heck of a lot of fun!

Goals:

To tell stories with sound

To produce high quality, memorable and iconic sound design for video games and film

Concrete Powers from inFamous Second Son. That’s my balding head you see in all those pictures. I spent a long autumn recording concrete in as many stages of disrepair, vibration, scratching, sliding, rubbing, breaking, impacting, etc, as I could. My colleague Brad Meyer/ Aural Surgeon is the poor sapunlucky fellow nice guy rolling around the trash bin of concrete rubble. That’s his voice, too. Yeah, and the video, too. He made the video. Those concrete powers? Those are all me. From Aural Surgeon on Vimeo.

Video Powers from inFamous Second Son. As above, you can see me featured in the making of video. I have a tendency to forget to document what I’m doing for posterity, so my colleague Brad Meyer/ Aural Surgeon had the fun of recreating some of the TV monitor recording I did in order to create this short in-house demo of what was going on. Thanks, Brad! From Aural Surgeon on Vimeo.

SFR Satsop Glass Smash Montage from Kristoffer Larson on Vimeo. A bunch of us got together and broke a lot of glass for a private library. That’s me on top of the truck. I’m not sure how I ended up there, other than I’m short and wasn’t afraid of falling through the roof.

SFR Glass Breaking session at Satsop from Aural Surgeon on Vimeo. A bunch of us got together and broke a lot of glass for a private library. That’s me on top of the truck. I’m not sure how I ended up there, other than I’m short and wasn’t afraid of falling through the roof.